Interpartner Dynamics in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliancesthat will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategicalliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoreticalframeworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, andemerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selectedsegments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence ofstrategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek todisseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interestedprofessionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Interpartner Dynamics in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 13 chapters inthis volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the critical issues in the interactions between partner firms in strategic alliances. Thechapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as relational mechanisms in alliances, role of interpersonal networks, parental control of jointventures, conflict management, interpartner diversity, and multilevel embeddedness in multilateral alliances, and the more focused problems ofalliance competence, roles of third parties, accounting for partner trust, relationship quality in construction alliances, and how natural resources mayimpact alliance formation. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a widerangingreview of the noteworthy research perspectives on interpartner dynamics in strategic alliances.